Those of you with Rabbits for meat... *Pics Page 4*

[penelope77]

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I plan to do my own processing since the meat is for our own table and I have no plans to sell to anyone else. I just don't want to pay someone else to do it - I figure I just need to get over the hump of the first few bunnies and I'll be okay.

This was a really good demonstration of a humane kill method. (I hope it's okay to post from another discussion board.)
http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/showthread.php?t=258573

About screaming rabbits...maybe. I've heard them scream mostly when they're grabbed quickly from above - like you're trying to catch an escapee and you dive down quick and hard to nab them before they dart away and they'll give a really loud squeal. I hope I can kill mine without scaring them too much, but if nothing else, it will be over quick.

i haven't tried that method yet. i did the whack on the back of the head and didn't like that at all and i tried the broomstick method which was okay. i'm getting a pellet gun cause i don't like feeling the head seperate. then again maybe when i'm killing them for meat and not because of some terrible accident it won't bother me using the broom. i was amazed at how easily the head seperates.

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Well I picked up my girls, two 12 week old New Zealands. Their names are Tallulah-Belle and Daisy-Mae.
I'll try and get some pictures up today. They are pretty girls, the old style New Zealands with black eyes, not the red eyed ones that origanally came from Florida.
I plan to bring them to my friend's flemish buck in about 4 weeks.

 

[turnerstar31]

Good luck with your rabbits. I have a californian and she just gave me 2 babies. I am happy with that as this is her first time and she is a great mom.

 

[MissPrissy]

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Show photos!

here are some of mine about 10 days old now

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=748975#p748975

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

Here are pics of my girls when I picked them up. They aren't on shavings anymore, that was just for the transport and those are Aspen wood shavings, not cedar or pine

Tallulah-Belle is on the right, Daisy-Mae is on the left...
I can always tell who Tallulah is because she grumbles and Daisy doesn't lol

Tallulah-Grumpy-Pants

And photobucket seems to have eaten my other pic of Daisy

 

[MissPrissy]

You aren't too many hours away from me. You bring them cuties on over here and I'll make sure they have a nice home

 

[PineBurrowPeeps]

No, no. MINE..

 

[Emzyyy]

Why would you eat a rabbit? There is plenty of other "meat" sources. I think its disturbing anyway if its a rabbit, chicken, pig, or cow I think its cruel. My dad won't let me be vegetarian I sneak the meat under the table to my dog.

 

[2manyhats]

We raised meat rabbits for about 2 years. We had about 300 at one point. We sold to a local butcher and made $1.10/lb live weight. We no longer want that kind of a production. We just picked up 6 does and 2 bucks for our own meat. We have a friend who does the butchering and returns half the number we gave him all packaged as cubed meat. He keeps the rest for his trouble. We raise our in suspended cages. They hang from the barn ceiling at about waist high for easy care. This allows us to avoid trays and such for waste. We shovel it out once a week or so from under. Much easier this way. We have NZ this time. We used to raise some Flemish does and NZ does with a NZ bucks.

 

[MissPrissy]

Would you show photos of your rabbitry please?